Postcards Catalogue
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Grey Falcon
Falco hypoleucos
A beautiful falcon of Australia’s dry interior. It seems to evaporate
in the blue sky while soaring and hunts by stooping from altitude or from
a perch in a dead branch of a tree. Capable of killing prey up to and
including such birds as galahs. Very fast but more lightly built and buoyant
than the peregrine. Lens 55 mm
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Australian
Kestrel
Falco cenchroides
The smallest of Australia’s falcons. Found throughout most of Australia.
It hunts small mammals, birds, insects and reptiles.
Lens 300 mm
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017
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Barn Owl Tyto alba
Found throughout most of Australia where its fortunes depend populations
of small mammals and occasional birds.
Lens 55 mm
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White-bellied Sea-eagle- Haliaeetus
leucogaster
A portrait of a captive sub-adult. This beautiful pirate is found in coastal
Australia and inland rivers. Prey consists of fish pirated from cormorants,
young sea birds, slow, sick, or dead, sea birds or fish washed up on shore
or floating in water. It can catch mammals such as cats, rabbits, possums
and wallabies. Lens 100 mm.
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Wedge-tailed eagle-
Aquila audax
The largest eagle in Australia. It eats a wide range of prey including
young kangaroos, wallabies, birds and reptiles. The introduced rabbit
forms a major part of its diet where it is abundant. A sub adult female
is seen here. Lens 55 mm
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Common Wombat & baby Vombatus
ursinus
Wherever she goes her baby is not far behind. She has discovered a bridge
is the best way to cross a stream without getting wet.
Lens 100 mm
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Emu- Dromaius Novaehollandiae
A troupe of young emus head for water in the golden landscape of early
summer. As many as fifty young, at this age are sometimes fostered by
one male Lens 200 mm
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Wedge-tailed
eagle Aquila audax & Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae
A large, mature female eagle looks out across open country at a troupe
of passing emus. Many emu chicks and young kangaroos fall prey to these
magnificent birds. Lens 55mm
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Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus
The dazzling 'blue wren is found in southeast Australia and Tasmania.
Lens 200 mm
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Red-winged parrot Aprosmictus erythropterus
This stunning parrot is common in northern Australia.
Lens 200 mm
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Blue-winged kookaburra Dacelo leachii
A male watches for prey from a perch in a tree. Found in Northern Australia,
where it is an efficient hunter of fledgling birds, reptiles, small mammals
and insects. Lens 200 mm
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